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12th September 2009, 07:28 PM
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|  The beauty of a Winch
Guess what?! I got myself a helmet camera! Contour HD - Top of the line helmet camera you can buy($550AU). As the name says, it is High definition. Takes a 16gb micro sd card too! Pitty bout the minimal 3 hours recording time though.. Ah well still a great toy that I'm very happy with. -- I see numerous chippers driving down the road with out winches as well as always hearing about cheap ass business owners jewing out on the last couple of thousands for a winch on their brand spanking new chipper. Fair enough if you work in tight suburbs from backyard where you can't get the chipper in the back, but the day you have an open job where there is room to winch it will pay for itself OVER just from the one job! Well this is a quick video of winching in a small tree into our oldest and least efficient chipper (still a good chipper though)bandit 250xp 5500+ hours on it and VERY overdue for a paint job rob! This was a TransGrid emergency job where the rural fire service had planned to back burn this easement (330kv lines), so we came in and cleared out all the stuff close to the lines (Mainly tea trees and Gums[On the embankment]) I mainly work on the TransGrid contract nowa days where we primarily work in the bush doing all kinds of tree work. I occasionally work out on the re-active crew (council tree work) but will be grabbing videos of everything from now on and will be uploading the best stuff right here.. Oh P.S I stuffed up abit on the aim of my cam, needs to be tilted abit lower.
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12th September 2009, 07:31 PM
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13th September 2009, 09:48 AM
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| Admin - Owner Palm & Tree Services in Brisbane  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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| Re: The beauty of a Winch
Helcams have come a long way since I got mine. Mine was top of the range and shooting 720 x 576 but this one shoots 1280x720. Apparently it also has high speed where with reduce image size it shoots 60 frames/second. Get some footage of something going fast in both modes, like a chainsaw or stump grinder. Can you also put it through it's paces from light to shade in a tree canopy, lets see how it responds. You got the 135 degree lense? ContourHD Helmet Cam - Tech Specs
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15th September 2009, 06:34 PM
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Yah comes with the 135 degree lens... Absolutely SPEWING! Females.. Only good for a few things haha!   I got my gf to upload the videos from yesterday, but she didn't delete them from the memory card!  Missed out on so much great footage today (Mass removal of hazardous nicholii's in penrith [had the excavator going, 2090xp, 1990xp, 30m3 truckx2]{LOTS of felling and scarfing of trees 500mm-1200mm diametre})Will remember to get the one in highspeed...
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16th September 2009, 07:31 AM
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| Re: The beauty of a Winch
Dayam, looks like I need to get myself a helmet cam, looks like fun. Also LOL @ winching in too far, when we got to borrow a 15" Bandit the boss done the same thing but it took us longer to get it out coz we dont have a winch.
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17th September 2009, 05:46 PM
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You'd think they'd make the winch thimble/splices idiot proof by now... Nothing worse then winching in a whole tree into our 2090 and sucking it in and having to get the excavator to lift it off...
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17th September 2009, 11:12 PM
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| Admin - Owner Palm & Tree Services in Brisbane Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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| Re: The beauty of a Winch
They did put a big disk on it to stop that, then cables bust. Also, next time around tell the boss to piss that steel cable off and get some new high tech rope because rope is a lot nicer when it busts and on your hands, plus it's stronger anyway. Read this Haul rope
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18th September 2009, 12:08 AM
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| Re: The beauty of a Winch Already tried getting the rope, manager is adamant about cable though. I havn't used rope over a long term, how does it hold up in terms of dragging along the ground? What is the life cycle you could expect to get from the rope? We get years from a cable when it has a chain end...
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18th September 2009, 01:03 AM
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| Admin - Owner Palm & Tree Services in Brisbane Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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Doesn't last as long for sure, I wonder what the pricing difference is? If the rope is cheaper then you got a shot at it. Plus John, you fit shit loads more on the reel so can drag further!
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18th September 2009, 06:42 AM
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Well Vermeer winches come with rope from factory now, no more steel cable. Time to get the Bandit up with the times.
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18th September 2009, 09:42 AM
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I'll talk to my manager about possibly trialing it on Transgrid, as we rely the most on our winch then any other crew for when we have to pull stuff up the side of mountains... Would be great to get a 100m winch rope 
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18th September 2009, 07:30 PM
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John, Amsteel blue rope, 3/8 dia is like 17,600 lbs breaking ... that's 8000kg or 8T
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18th September 2009, 07:49 PM
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Mmmm definitely going to raise the issue on monday
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